Mr. Arefaine Berhe, Minister of Agriculture, said that soil and water conservation has significant contribution in boosting agricultural production and called on administrators to give utmost consideration and encourage residents to conduct sustainable popular campaigns to that end.

Commending the strong effort conducted in water and soil conservation activities in the Anseba Region, Mr. Arefaine Berhe, Minister of Agriculture called for more efforts with a view to boost productivity.

Eritrean nationals residing in the Netherlands, Angola and Israel hold discussions on the objective situation in the homeland and role of Eritrean nationals in the Diaspora in the national development drives.

President Isaias Afwerki expressed his best wishes and a Happy New Year to the people of Eritrea living inside the country and abroad, to the Eritrean Defense Forces as well as to friends and well wishers of Eritrea.

About 200 staff members of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have visited development and historical sites in the regions of Southern and Northern Red Sea, and the Gash Barka from 21 to 29 December in connection with the New Year.

In what appears as a knee-jerk reaction to public outrage following the recent CNN footage showing “migrants being sold as slaves” in Libya, the EU has floated the notion of a “humanitarian corridor” to relocate “stranded refugees to Europe”.

The National Union of Eritrean Youth and Students branch in the Gash Barka region indicated that strong effort will be exerted in 2018 to develop academic and vocational skills of the youth with a view to increase their productivity.